Question

What character flaw is the tale within a tale of Midas's wife meant to illustrate in "The Canterbury Tales"?

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

The character flaw is that she cannot keep a secret. It is implying that women cannot keep secrets. She lets out the secret that her husband has the ears of a donkey.

Answer 2

The inability to keep a secret. Actually it implies a woman can't keep a secret, but then who can. The secret she can't keep...her husband had the ears of a donkey.